The ways to eliminate waste are

Say goodbye to waste. These methods make your life frugal and exquisite.

Are you the same: you forgot to buy something and bought another one; Buy back things that are completely unused; I don't need it yet, but I bought it back in advance. These situations, which often happen in daily life, are a major cause of unimaginable waste.

The book "Basis of Life: 10 Essentials of Perception of Life" tells you that life can be relaxed and exquisite with a little care.

The reason why many people don't keep it well is that there are too many things. No matter how hard you try to store, if things keep pouring in, it will become very difficult to access and organize. As a result, there is no way to take things out and put them back, and the room is becoming more and more difficult to clean up. The disadvantage of adding things is not just "out of control". Because there are too many, you will not know what you have and forget what you have at home. Forget what it is, and then go to the store to buy something, resulting in "double purchase" of two items of the same thing, increasing the number of items for no reason, resulting in too many things to put down. Of course, the money spent is also doubled, and the double purchase and three purchases at home continue to accumulate, wasting money.

On the other hand, are many things you have "necessary" things that you often use? Many people's "space" is occupied by things that are actually unnecessary. Are these things just for use at first, and then they gradually become idle? In fact, when I just bought it, was it unnecessary?

This waste of buying unnecessary things will erode your money, energy, time, mood and space, causing repeated purchases and making the room difficult to clean up. Yes, the fundamental reason why the room is difficult to tidy up is not that the storage method is wrong, nor that the head of the family is lax, but that the owner will not tell whether the purchased goods are "really needed" when shopping.

Think about whether you have wasteful shopping behavior. Please think back to the things at home (especially the large number of storage items). People with fewer items are less likely to have storage problems.

0 1. View the inventory.

In many families, there are amazing amounts of facial cleanser on the washstand. Even people who think that "my family won't be like this" can't see it just because things are put away. Other families have 7 bottles of light softener. These are all caused by the failure to formulate rules for surrounding commodities. Every time I go to the drugstore, I will unconsciously buy something to go home as long as I feel that it is so cheap and I can feel at ease when I buy it. As the number increased, I gradually began to doubt how many things I had. The space on the shelf of the washstand is occupied by all kinds of hoardings, which makes it difficult to play an effective role.

As for the composition, the same is true. Do you remember how many expired milk, snacks and noodles you threw away before eating? No matter how cheap it is when you buy it and how good it feels when you choose it in the store, it is a waste not to eat it. Somehow, the money spent, the labor of the people who make food, and the ingredients themselves are thrown into the fruit.

Do you know how much inventory should be kept for various items at home? It is very important to accurately grasp the life cycle of consumables and develop the shopping habit of saving storage space.

For example, the inventory of cleaning liquid is put together, and you can buy another one when you run out. In this day and age, basically everything you want can be bought right away. And people with very limited living space generally live in areas where things can be bought as soon as they are used up. Even people who have a lot of storage space should pay attention to limiting the number of items to a state where they can effectively manage and play a role. You know, the energy required for storage will increase with the increase of the number of items.

02. Let's start with the shortcomings.

You can't buy more storage furniture just because things can't fit. Why is this? Because the home is small, as long as you add one or two things, you will immediately find that the place has become smaller, so don't move things home easily. For example, although you know that you can't put on airs without a hammer, you would never buy a hammer for such an occasional thing. You can see if anyone around you has it. Let me borrow it. If you just want to buy it in buy buy, things at home will definitely not fit.

Only when you feel "want and need to buy" three times in a row, will you really buy it? Then, the purpose you want is completely in tune, you can reuse it, and you can put it into "actual combat" on the day you buy it back.

Now, readers who are troubled by too many things can try to give up some things and live. Even if they don't tidy up right away, they might as well try to put things into cartons in a short time, such as putting away tools that are not commonly used, or leaving only four cups and putting all the other cups away.

Many people take it for granted that there are many cups on the shelf, but sometimes they have to question whether this "common sense in their own hearts" is really necessary. Sometimes you will find that even if the number of items you have is much less than the number you have, you can live well. When you arrange your life with fewer things, it will be easier to make choices based on your personal experience. Just use this, it will be more convenient to store.

03. Lost to desire, so there are more and more clothes.

The more people like clothes, the easier it is to fall into a problem: more and more clothes are coming out. Of course, this increase is not caused by more clothes, but undoubtedly by buying new clothes one after another. Moreover, just because you like clothes, you can't throw them away easily, which will lead to the contradiction that "the more clothes, the more difficult it is to match". You can't remember what clothes you have, so you have to wear them over and over again, which narrows the range of collocation. If you can't master the quantity of clothes, you can't use them effectively.

So the most important thing is the awareness when buying. Don't buy it just because you think it looks good and you want it. Think calmly about these questions: Do you already have similar clothes? Is there a place to store it? Can it match the existing clothes? It's really painful to cut off the idea of "wanting" and go home directly, but in this way, you don't lose to material things, but to your own desires.

I once bought a lot of clothes so easily and accumulated "rich" failure experience. Later, when I was sorting out clothes in different seasons, I took out all my clothes and counted them in different categories to figure out which clothes I had and how many pieces I had. If you have time, you will also hold a "personal fashion show" to develop new clothes combinations. In this way, you will know what clothes you need, what clothes are easy to change and what clothes are not easy to wear.

For the clothes you think it is necessary to buy, you can study them in advance, go to several familiar stores and make sure you can wear them completely before buying them. Of course, sometimes no matter how many stores you visit, you can't find what you want to buy, so you want to buy clothes that are slightly eye-catching and cute. But be patient at this moment. I suggest you go to the underground of the shopping mall and buy a delicious red bean bread to calm yourself down.

04. Take a long-term view

Some people often pack a lot of skin care products at home, some forget about them after half use, and then leave them like that for several years.

There are many kinds of skin care products, hair care products and body care products on the market. When you buy new products, there will naturally be more and more things. Especially the beauty liquid, because it can't be used up in a short time, the half-used bottle often stands in the storage box. And it is something with a higher price, so there is no way to throw it away easily. Having said that, when you have new troubles, such as freckles and short hair, you will want to solve them by new products. Nevertheless, we should take a long-term view, use up what we have at hand first, and then open new products.

Some people like to buy a bunch of things on sale, but these goods will taste bad if they are left idle at home. In addition, after long-term use, your skin or hair may also change. So, choose carefully and use one thing well. When buying, first review your habits and storage methods so far and think, "What do you have at home now?" "Is it over?"

"Purchase" and "storage" are directly related. Accommodation is the scene preparation of ideal life. In other words, shopping is also related to what kind of life you want and what kind of attitude towards life you want. In order not to produce waste, you should carefully consider the items when you buy something.

05. You should do this

The inventory just needs to be filled. ※

The inventory of canned and soft-packed food can only fill this drawer. No matter how cheap the price is, it is just a waste to buy too much and throw it away.

The date of opening is written on the skin care products. ※

Write the date of opening on the label, so that you can know your life cycle when you use it, and you can easily confirm how long you have used it, and you will not blindly hoard goods.

Clothes will be used until the end. ※

Old T-shirts and sewing clothes should be cleaned and cut into small pieces with scissors as disposable rags. Socks can be worn directly on your hands and dipped in alcohol disinfectant to clean the toilet.

Mechanism of not adding clothes ※

Socks should be rolled up and put in the storage basket, because it will be difficult to take them out when you want to wear a pair of socks. Restrict socks, underwear and other clothes that are easy to buy to a certain storage space for management, so that there will be no more and more.

If you don't forget to bring it, you won't buy it outside. ※

Hang a basket in front of the porch. You can take everything out of your pocket when you go home and put it back when you go out, so you won't forget to bring something.

The date of opening should also be marked on the seasoning. ※

Like beauty and skin care products, you can know the consumption cycle at home by doing so. "I probably use so much a month." In this way, if you know what you are doing, the time to buy inventory will be clear, so you won't buy more at random and compress the storage space at home.

Frozen food is marked with the date of freezing. ※

For ingredients, my goal is: zero waste. If you don't eat meat and fish within 2~3 weeks after freezing, the taste will be obviously worse. If you mark the date, you won't forget it carelessly, and you can arrange the menu for eating as soon as possible.

Use a little seasoning. ※

If the family has a small population, small bottles of seasoning such as salad dressing and tomato sauce are enough. A palm-sized bottle can be used up in a month. No matter what kind of seasoning, if you buy more than you need, it will only go bad and increase waste.